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     <div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. P. Pillay: <span class="field">Energy Efficiency in Electrical Machines for Small Scale Renewable Energy Production Systems</span></div>
     <p>Concordia University and Hydro-Qu&eacute;bec have joined forces to establish a new Senior Industrial Research Chair in the broad area of sustainable energy systems. Building on the chairholder&#8217;s recent efforts in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy and machine design, innovative solutions will be developed to increase the electric efficiency of the energy system and contribute to the conservation of non-renewable energy sources. The Chair will further explore sustainable and affordable energy sources suitable for Hydro-Qu&eacute;bec customers, such as: biomass, osmosis and small wind. The practical integration of these sources will then be examined at particular customer locations in settings ranging from urban office buildings to rural farms.</p></div>
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  <p><strong>Dr. V. Chvatal: <em>Combinatorial Optimization</em></strong><br />
    In the 1990s, Dr. Vaclav Chvatal and three collaborators developed a computer code for solving certain instances of the traveling salesman problem. One in particular involved 15,112 cities in Germany. These groundbreaking algorithmic techniques have the potential of being applied to a wide class of combinatorial optimization problems, where one aims to find the most economical option among a finite, but often astronomically large, number of possibilities. Classical applications of combinatorial optimization problems have been found in industrial and management planning. The Internet Revolution and recent advances in genomics, largely dominate recent applications. They include broadband satellite communications, computational finance, and biotechnology. These areas will provide test beds for software developed by Dr. Chvatal and his research team.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. Y. Zeng: <em>Laser Metrology and Laser Micromachining</em></strong><br />
    Dr. Zeng's research aims at developing robust software tools to enhance the quality and efficiency of innovative product development in manufacturing companies. The foundation of these tools is the formal design science he has developed based on the recursive logic of design he proposed with his collaborator in 1991. His research includes design process modeling, requirements engineering, design knowledge representation, surface reconstruction, as well as finite element modeling. He has applied his research results to some industry projects, such as intelligent sketching interface for product conceptual design, integrated CAD/FEM radar analysis system, etc. Dr. Zeng and his team are currently exploring the applications of their software tools to manufacturing industry such as aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, and biomedical devices manufacturing.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. S. Narayanswamy:<em> Laser Metrology and Laser Micromachining </em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming.</p>
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  <p><strong>Dr. A. Athienitis: Integration of Solar Energy Systems into Buildings </strong><br />
    Integration of solar energy systems into buildings has the potential to convert them into net energy producers on an annual basis. The challenge is to develop such buildings as advanced technological systems that are affordable and comfortable through optimal integration of passive systems and energy generating technologies such as photovoltaics, as well as energy efficiency technologies. Dr Athienitis&rsquo; research work focuses on the study, modeling and development of innovative solar systems such as building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal systems which generate electricity and useful heat while being a functional part of the building envelope and its energy system; model-based design and control of daylighting systems that include motorized shading and transparent photovoltaics; modeling, design and control of net-zero energy buildings. Dr. Athienitis founded the NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network with its base at Concordia and pioneered several world class demonstration projects of solar homes with near-zero average annual energy consumption.  He was named by Actualit&eacute; Magazine as one of 25 top innovators in Quebec. </p>
  <p><strong>Dr. T. Eavis: <em>Online Analytical Processing for Tera-scale Parallel Databases</em></strong><br />
    Today, many of the world's largest databases are, in fact, data warehouses. By integrating detailed, transactional data from across the enterprise, organizations are able to assess historical trends and plan for the future. With the emergence of the web, however, warehouse data volumes have grown to the point where traditional warehouse architectures often fail to provide the kind of real time performance that today's interactive users typically demand. Dr. Eavis' current work focuses on a pair of related goals. In the first case, his research lab is investigating methods that will support more intuitive analytical services on top of the underlying warehouse repositories. Such functionality is often broadly described by the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). Specific research themes include visualization, object oriented query facilities, query optimization, and multi-dimensional caching. At the same time, he is targeting high performance architectures, with a particular emphasis on cluster computing, multi-core algorithms, and distributed grid architectures.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. S.V. Hoa: <em>Materials &amp; Composites</em></strong><br />
    Research work on Materials and Composites places emphasis on the developments of new products, processes and technologies and looking at quality and performance issues (fracture toughness, resistance against the absorption of small molecules such as water, alkali-water solution and oxygen, flammability resistance) and making them more cost effective for industrial applications be it in aerospace, automotive, biomedical or civil engineering structures. Currently, Dr. Hoa, a leading expert in his field of study, is focused on advances in polymer nanocomposites, long fiber thermoplastic composites, nanomechanics of polymeric materials, shrinkage of resin, and intelligent materials.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. C. Mulligan: <em>Environmental Engineering</em></strong><em></em><br />
    Minimization and avoidance of pollutant releases and understanding the movement and transformation of contaminants once they reach the environment, are required to avoid the degradation of the environment and hence the ecosystem. The increasing population is leading to fewer waste management options, environmental destruction, and increased disasters due to global warming. Environmental management and technological development will ultimately enhance the quality of life of the public and the quality of the environment for the entire ecosystem. Through this research program, Dr. Mulligan looks to develop technologies for the treatment of air, water, waste and soil contaminants, as well as investigate the processes for the transport and degradation of chemicals in the complete environment across all media.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. S. Rakheja: <em>Vehicular Ergodynamics</em></strong><br />
    Concordia has long been known for its expertise in advanced transportation systems and highway safety, human response to workplace vibration and driver-vehicle interaction. Dr. Rakheja&rsquo;s research work in this area has evolved to what is called vehicular ergodynamics, a field that involves systematic studies on the dynamics of the transport system on the human operator, with a special emphasis on dynamic environmental interactions. Ergodynamics addresses the mutual adaptation of the system and the human operator, to enhance system performance and optimal efficiency with appropriate considerations of the performance limits of the operator. The research efforts are directed towards developments in theories on human perception and response; effective objective and subjective measurement techniques; considerations of various human (age, gender, anthropometry, anthropodynamics, and neuro-muscular response) and environmental (visibility and road conditions) factors; vehicle dynamics and highway safety; dynamic driver-vehicle-environment interactions; and intelligent vehicles.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. C. Y. Suen: <em>Artificial Intelligence &amp; Pattern Recognition</em></strong><br />
    Recognition technologies play an important role in information processing. Each day, billions of business and financial documents have to be processed by computers. Data needs to be captured from these documents and entered for processing. Because of the lack of computerized handwriting recognition machines, most of this data, be it an amount on a cheque or postal code, have to be entered into the computer by tedious, slow, and costly manual operations. The objective of Dr. Suen, world-renowned in his field, is to integrate several promising recognition methods, and at the same time, develop robust techniques, while discovering and applying new perceptual knowledge to improve and optimize character recognition schemes. The long-term goal is to produce an optical character and word recognition (OCR or OWR) system, which will ultimately outperform or be at least comparable to the capability of human vision.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. C-Y. Su: <em>Intelligent Control of Non-Smooth Dynamic Systems</em></strong><br />
    The phenomenon of wing rock or limit-cycle oscillation that normally occurs in aircraft is mainly due to mechanical backlash, dead zone and hysteresis. This phenomenon is of great concern in the aerospace industry. Extensive research has been carried out to find means of controlling this unwanted oscillation. Mechanical backlash, dead-zone and hysteresis that generate such oscillations fall into the general category of non-smooth nonlinearities. They are common in the industrial controls systems, ranging from high-technology applications (micromanipulation in fabrication of semiconductors, ultra-precision turning of turbine shafts, micro-stabbers and micropipettes in cellular biology) to traditional applications (robot manipulators, and drive systems of large vehicles). Dr. Su&rsquo;s plans are to develop control theories, engineering design methods and technology for non-smoooth dynamic systems, arising from parameter variations or from neglected dynamics.<br />
    The development of control methods have a direct impact on the products being produced, and are suitable for any motion systems with mechanical connections, hydraulic servo-valves, piezoelectric actuators, electric servomotors, and biomedical actuator systems that require fast and precision control.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. M. Swamy: <em>Signal Processing &amp; Applications</em></strong><br />
    Digital signal processing techniques have found a variety of applications over the last 15 to 20 years in the processing of signals in such diverse areas as biomedical image processing, telecommunications, acoustics, image and video signal processing and seismology. The overall objective of Dr. Swamy&rsquo;s research is to develop fundamental underlying theory for efficient and reliable processing of speech, image and video signals, and to design algorithms for their software and hardware implementation for communication and other applications. Some of his current research projects include; low-complexity speech coding; silent suppression techniques for packet voice communication; voice activity detection using higher-order statistics; echo cancellation, de-noising and compression of digital images; error resilient video coding algorithms and their performance evaluation; robust watermarking techniques using wavelets; and the development of efficient multidimensional vector radix algorithms.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. S. Tahar: <em>Formal Verification of Microelectronic Systems</em></strong><br />
    The revolution of information technology and electronics in general, is driven by the extraordinary advances in semiconductor technology. Today&rsquo;s microelectronics systems are complex designs with literally tens of millions of transistors on a single chip, often combining microcontroller and DSP processor cores, memory blocks, application specific logic and mixed-signal functions. Complexity, time-to-market pressure and evolving requirements pose new challenges in the design and verification process. Traditional testing such as simulation methods, can no longer give reasonable assurance for the quality of a product. Dr. Tahar&rsquo;s research aims to develop techniques and tools enabling the verification of real-size microelectronics designs through alternative means, called formal methods, involving all possible scenarios of input and state combinations, giving very strong results about the correctness of designs. The proposed techniques will be validated using real designs, which are industrial benchmarks. This approach will advance the systems specification and verification process, thus shortening the design cycle of microelectronics products.</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. O. Ahmad:<em> Multimedia and Signal Processing</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. M. Debabbi: <em>Information Systems Technology</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. A. Ghrayeb: <em>High-Speed Wireless Communications</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. K. Khorasani: <em>Control of Autonomous Network of Unmanned Systems</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. A. Ghrayeb: <em>High-Speed Wireless Communications</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. F. Haghighat:<em> Energy and Environment</em></strong><br />
Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. W. Hamouda: <em>Data Communications and Networking</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. B. Jaumard: <em>Optimization of Communication Networks</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. K. Khorasani: <em>Control of Autonomous Network of Unmanned Systems</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. M. Packirisamy: Optical BioMEMS</strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. M. Paraschivoiu: <em>Simulation of Clean Energy Production and Storage </em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
  <p><strong>Dr. P. Wood-Adams:<em> Physics of Advanced Materials</em></strong><br />
    Research summary forthcoming</p>
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  		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. V. Chvatal: <span class="field">Combinatorial Optimization</span></div>
    <p>In the 1990s, Dr. Vaclav Chvatal and three collaborators developed a computer code for solving certain instances of the traveling salesman problem. One in particular involved 15,112 cities in Germany. These groundbreaking algorithmic techniques have the potential of being applied to a wide class of combinatorial optimization problems, where one aims to find the most economical option among a finite, but often astronomically large, number of possibilities. Classical applications of combinatorial optimization problems have been found in industrial and management planning. The Internet Revolution and recent advances in genomics, largely dominate recent applications. They include broadband satellite communications, computational finance, and biotechnology. These areas will provide test beds for software developed by Dr. Chvatal and his research team.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. R. Glitho: <span class="field">End-User Service Engineering for Communications Networks</span></div> 
    <p>End-user services (e.g. Multimedia and multiparty games, distance learning, video on demand) are the raison d&#8217;&ecirc;tre of communications networks. The specification and validation of architectures for end-user services in communication networks is a major engineering challenge. The widest possible range of services needs to be engineered; all the phases of the life cycle (e.g. development, deployment, execution, usage and withdrawal) need to be addressed; and the specifics of the communications networks need to be taken into account. This research program focus on specification and validation of comprehensive architectures (e.g. concepts, principles, rules) for engineering end-user services in communications networks. The program draws on several disciplines (e.g. distributed systems, software engineering, networking) and deals with both conventional networks (e.g. 3G) and challenged networks (e.g. mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensors and

actuators networks).</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. Y. Zeng: <span class="field">Design Science</span></div> 
    <p>Dr. Zeng's research aims at developing robust software tools to enhance the quality and efficiency of innovative product development in manufacturing companies. The foundation of these tools is the formal design science he has developed based on the recursive logic of design he proposed with his collaborator in 1991. His research includes design process modeling, requirements engineering, design knowledge representation, surface reconstruction, as well as finite element modeling. He has applied his research results to some industry projects, such as intelligent sketching interface for product conceptual design, integrated CAD/FEM radar analysis system, etc. Dr. Zeng and his team are currently exploring the applications of their software tools to manufacturing industry such as aerospace engineering, automotive engineering, and biomedical devices manufacturing.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. A. Athienitis: <span class="field">Integration of Solar Energy Systems into Buildings</span></div>
    <p>Integration of solar energy systems into buildings has the potential to convert them into net energy producers on an annual basis. The challenge is to develop such buildings as advanced technological systems that are affordable and comfortable through optimal integration of passive systems and energy generating technologies such as photovoltaics, as well as energy efficiency technologies. Dr Athienitis&rsquo; research work focuses on the study, modeling and development of innovative solar systems such as building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal systems which generate electricity and useful heat while being a functional part of the building envelope and its energy system; model-based design and control of daylighting systems that include motorized shading and transparent photovoltaics; modeling, design and control of net-zero energy buildings. Dr. Athienitis founded the NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network with its base at Concordia and pioneered several world class demonstration projects of solar homes with near-zero average annual energy consumption.  He was named by Actualit&eacute; Magazine as one of 25 top innovators in Quebec.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. M. Debabbi: <span class="field">Information Systems Security</span></div> 
    <p>With  the striking expansion of  information technology, security is emerging as the most important  challenge  facing computer science and engineering. Individuals, corporations and  organizations are relying more and more on information systems that are  connected to public networks, to transmit confidential and  security-critical  data. This trend has increased the risks of interception, malicious  instrumentation and misuse of sensitive electronic information.  Accordingly,  information systems must be protected against any malicious attempt  that may  affect secrecy (by leaking sensitive information), integrity (by  corrupting  information), authentication (by impersonating authorized principals),  availability (by denying service to legal users), etc. The negative  impacts of  this situation include: loss or endangerment of human life, financial  loss, unauthorized  use or misuse of information, denial of services, alteration and/or  compromise  of data or software. Our research aims at creating dedicated processes,  methodologies, techniques and tools to prevent attacks, reduce  vulnerabilities,  and mitigate the underlying risks and forensically investigate cyber  incidents.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. T. Eavis: <span class="field">Online Analytical Processing for Tera-scale Parallel Databases</span></div> 
		<p>Today, many of the world's largest databases are, in fact, data warehouses. By integrating detailed, transactional data from across the enterprise, organizations are able to assess historical trends and plan for the future. With the emergence of the web, however, warehouse data volumes have grown to the point where traditional warehouse architectures often fail to provide the kind of real time performance that today's interactive users typically demand. Dr. Eavis' current work focuses on a pair of related goals. In the first case, his research lab is investigating methods that will support more intuitive analytical services on top of the underlying warehouse repositories. Such functionality is often broadly described by the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). Specific research themes include visualization, object oriented query facilities, query optimization, and multi-dimensional caching. At the same time, he is targeting high performance architectures, with a particular emphasis on cluster computing, multi-core algorithms, and distributed grid architectures.</p>
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  	<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. S.V. Hoa: <span class="field">Materials &amp; Composites</span></div> 
    <p>Research work on Materials and Composites places emphasis on the developments of new products, processes and technologies and looking at quality and performance issues (fracture toughness, resistance against the absorption of small molecules such as water, alkali-water solution and oxygen, flammability resistance) and making them more cost effective for industrial applications be it in aerospace, automotive, biomedical or civil engineering structures. Currently, Dr. Hoa, a leading expert in his field of study, is focused on advances in polymer nanocomposites, long fiber thermoplastic composites, nanomechanics of polymeric materials, shrinkage of resin, and intelligent materials.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. C. Mulligan: <span class="field">Environmental Engineering</span></div>
    <p>Minimization and avoidance of pollutant releases and understanding the movement and transformation of contaminants once they reach the environment, are required to avoid the degradation of the environment and hence the ecosystem. The increasing population is leading to fewer waste management options, environmental destruction, and increased disasters due to global warming. Environmental management and technological development will ultimately enhance the quality of life of the public and the quality of the environment for the entire ecosystem. Through this research program, Dr. Mulligan looks to develop technologies for the treatment of air, water, waste and soil contaminants, as well as investigate the processes for the transport and degradation of chemicals in the complete environment across all media.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. S. Rakheja: <span class="field">Vehicular Ergodynamics</span></div> 
    <p>Concordia has long been known for its expertise in advanced transportation systems and highway safety, human response to workplace vibration and driver-vehicle interaction. Dr. Rakheja&rsquo;s research work in this area has evolved to what is called vehicular ergodynamics, a field that involves systematic studies on the dynamics of the transport system on the human operator, with a special emphasis on dynamic environmental interactions. Ergodynamics addresses the mutual adaptation of the system and the human operator, to enhance system performance and optimal efficiency with appropriate considerations of the performance limits of the operator. The research efforts are directed towards developments in theories on human perception and response; effective objective and subjective measurement techniques; considerations of various human (age, gender, anthropometry, anthropodynamics, and neuro-muscular response) and environmental (visibility and road conditions) factors; vehicle dynamics and highway safety; dynamic driver-vehicle-environment interactions; and intelligent vehicles.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. C. Y. Suen: <span class="field">Artificial Intelligence &amp; Pattern Recognition</span></div> 
    <p>Recognition technologies play an important role in information processing. Each day, billions of business and financial documents have to be processed by computers. Data needs to be captured from these documents and entered for processing. Because of the lack of computerized handwriting recognition machines, most of this data, be it an amount on a cheque or postal code, have to be entered into the computer by tedious, slow, and costly manual operations. The objective of Dr. Suen, world-renowned in his field, is to integrate several promising recognition methods, and at the same time, develop robust techniques, while discovering and applying new perceptual knowledge to improve and optimize character recognition schemes. The long-term goal is to produce an optical character and word recognition (OCR or OWR) system, which will ultimately outperform or be at least comparable to the capability of human vision.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. C-Y. Su: <span class="field">Intelligent Control of Non-Smooth Dynamic Systems</span></div> 
    <p>The phenomenon of wing rock or limit-cycle oscillation that normally occurs in aircraft is mainly due to mechanical backlash, dead zone and hysteresis. This phenomenon is of great concern in the aerospace industry. Extensive research has been carried out to find means of controlling this unwanted oscillation. Mechanical backlash, dead-zone and hysteresis that generate such oscillations fall into the general category of non-smooth nonlinearities. They are common in the industrial controls systems, ranging from high-technology applications (micromanipulation in fabrication of semiconductors, ultra-precision turning of turbine shafts, micro-stabbers and micropipettes in cellular biology) to traditional applications (robot manipulators, and drive systems of large vehicles). Dr. Su&rsquo;s plans are to develop control theories, engineering design methods and technology for non-smoooth dynamic systems, arising from parameter variations or from neglected dynamics.<br /> 
    The development of control methods have a direct impact on the products being produced, and are suitable for any motion systems with mechanical connections, hydraulic servo-valves, piezoelectric actuators, electric servomotors, and biomedical actuator systems that require fast and precision control.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. M. Swamy: <span class="field">Signal Processing &amp; Applications</span></div> 
    <p>Digital signal processing techniques have found a variety of applications over the last 15 to 20 years in the processing of signals in such diverse areas as biomedical image processing, telecommunications, acoustics, image and video signal processing and seismology. The overall objective of Dr. Swamy&rsquo;s research is to develop fundamental underlying theory for efficient and reliable processing of speech, image and video signals, and to design algorithms for their software and hardware implementation for communication and other applications. Some of his current research projects include; low-complexity speech coding; silent suppression techniques for packet voice communication; voice activity detection using higher-order statistics; echo cancellation, de-noising and compression of digital images; error resilient video coding algorithms and their performance evaluation; robust watermarking techniques using wavelets; and the development of efficient multidimensional vector radix algorithms.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. S. Tahar: <span class="field">Formal Verification of Microelectronic Systems</span></div> 
    <p>The revolution of information technology and electronics in general, is driven by the extraordinary advances in semiconductor technology. Today&rsquo;s microelectronics systems are complex designs with literally tens of millions of transistors on a single chip, often combining microcontroller and DSP processor cores, memory blocks, application specific logic and mixed-signal functions. Complexity, time-to-market pressure and evolving requirements pose new challenges in the design and verification process. Traditional testing such as simulation methods, can no longer give reasonable assurance for the quality of a product. Dr. Tahar&rsquo;s research aims to develop techniques and tools enabling the verification of real-size microelectronics designs through alternative means, called formal methods, involving all possible scenarios of input and state combinations, giving very strong results about the correctness of designs. The proposed techniques will be validated using real designs, which are industrial benchmarks. This approach will advance the systems specification and verification process, thus shortening the design cycle of microelectronics products.</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. O. Ahmad: <span class="field">Multimedia and Signal Processing</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. A. Ghrayeb: <span class="field">High-Speed Wireless Communications</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. F. Haghighat: <span class="field">Energy and Environment</span></div> 
		<p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. W. Hamouda: <span class="field">Data Communications and Networking</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. B. Jaumard: <span class="field">Optimization of Communication Networks</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. K. Khorasani: <span class="field">Control of Autonomous Network of Unmanned Systems</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. M. Packirisamy: <span class="field">Optical BioMEMS</span></div>
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. M. Paraschivoiu: <span class="field">Simulation of Clean Energy Production and Storage </span></div>
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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		<div><span class="toggler"></span>Dr. P. Wood-Adams: <span class="field">Physics of Advanced Materials</span></div> 
    <p>Research summary forthcoming</p> 
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